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Tacos, anyone? Iguanas are falling
Miami Herald ^
| January 22, 2020
| CARLOS FRÍAS
Posted on 01/22/2020 1:27:17 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Mango season may be months away, but if you live in South Florida today, your trees may be ripe for the picking of iguanas.
Iguana meat, dubbed chicken of the trees, started showing up on Facebook Marketplace overnight, as the temperature dipped into the 40s. The green iguanas are an invasive species, stunned lifeless by South Floridas occasional cold snaps, and they die if the chilly weather holds. The National Weather Service even tweeted to watch out for falling iguanas.
That apparently makes them easy pickings for backyard harvesters.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: attentionho; bloggers; chat; fl; florida; iguanas; lookatmee
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I checked around here early this morning when temperature was about 40 degrees but didn't see any iguanas lying on the ground. I think this weather just stunned them with only a few deaths, unlike ten years ago when we had temps in the 30s and low 40s for almost a week. At that time almost all the iguanas froze to death.
If they are not killed off this winter like ten years ago, I am thinking of hunting them with a blowgun just to be different. Using an air rifle can get you trouble with the police and the iguanas around my lake probably won't let you get close enough to use a noose on the end of a pole as the Iguana Man uses. That sort of leaves blowguns as an option.
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:27:17 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Try a cast net....................
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:28:21 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:31:29 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: PJ-Comix
Mmmmmmm, barbecued Iguana!
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:32:05 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:33:57 PM PST
by
heavy metal
(truth trumps lies...)
To: PJ-Comix
How about a crossbow? Friend of mine uses one
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:35:21 PM PST
by
eartick
(Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
To: PJ-Comix
Hey, Mom!, I found an iguana in the back yard tree. Can I keep him?
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:38:38 PM PST
by
Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: eartick
How about a crossbow? Friend of mine uses one Again, someone could get the wrong idea if they saw me with a crossbow. In fact, the machete I plan to use to dispatch the iguanas, I will keep in a large plastic bag out of sight until I finally use it.
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:46:48 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(I was FIRST IN LINE at the Sunrise Trump Rally!!!)
To: Cvengr
My wife doesn’t like the idea of me cooking iguana tails so first I will pick up a gator tail to cook to get her used to the idea.
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:48:09 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(I was FIRST IN LINE at the Sunrise Trump Rally!!!)
To: PJ-Comix
What is Al Gore doing in FL?
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:51:50 PM PST
by
Zathras
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:54:21 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: PJ-Comix
Iguanas...... who gives a damn about the iguanas.
It’s the pythons man. They can’t tolerate the cold either
Perhaps they’ll die.
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posted on
01/22/2020 1:55:31 PM PST
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
To: dfwgator
I’d try an iguana taco or burrito.
Maybe a combination platter.
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:12:27 PM PST
by
lightman
(The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
To: lightman
Its too bad that the cause de la celebrity is no longer global cooling.
I find it fascinating that nature could fix the problem of invasive species with an out of character week long cold spell.
I mean think how much better off FL would be with a 95% reduction in iguanas and pythons.
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:20:50 PM PST
by
PittsburghAfterDark
(There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
I don’t think this cold snap will last long enough to make much of a dent in the invasive species here. Ten years ago, almost all iguanas were wiped out and it took about 5 years before they became noticeable again. Now they are all over. If I look out my window (not today) I almost always see one of those dinosaurs walking around. That’s why I want to hunt them and eat them. Readily available meat.
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:31:44 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(I was FIRST IN LINE at the Sunrise Trump Rally!!!)
To: bert
“...Perhaps theyll die.”
I dunno why they swallowed a fly...
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:32:48 PM PST
by
Kriggerel
("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
To: PJ-Comix
Iguana meat, dubbed chicken of the trees,Really? Are they good?
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:58:10 PM PST
by
McGruff
To: McGruff
I was talking about the possibility of hunting and eating iguana with my wife on our recent Caribbean cruise and a guy behind us turned around and told us he ate iguana and said it was terrific.
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posted on
01/22/2020 3:05:56 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(I was FIRST IN LINE at the Sunrise Trump Rally!!!)
To: PJ-Comix
Someone has to say it...
Iguana hold your hand
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posted on
01/22/2020 3:26:03 PM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Yo-Yo
I wish I was in Tijuana...
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posted on
01/22/2020 3:51:45 PM PST
by
Redcitizen
("There's no replacement for shot placement" - Paul Harrell)
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